Venezuela, Brazil, India fuel growth of Utah's foreign-born population; numbers from Mexico dip

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's foreign-born population jumped by 20.6% between 2012 and 2022, motored most notably by newcomers from South America and Asia. Venezuela contributed the largest number of new residents from any single country, 7,119, followed by Brazil, 4,681, and India, 3,956, according to population estimates released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau. Venezuela has seen an exodus of residents around the globe amid an ongoing socioeconomic and political crisis under the leadership of President Nicolás Maduro. The numbers of those born in Mexico, by far the...